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#1

“The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.”
― Johann von Goethe

tags: free, freedom

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#2

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, brainwashing, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, force, free, free-market, freedom, government, indoctrination, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, media, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, propaganda, public, public-education, school, schooling, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism

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#3

“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government! The only sure way to prevent the rich from buying unfair government influence is to stop allowing government to use physical force against peaceful people. Whenever government is allowed to favor one group over another, the rich will always win, since they can "buy" more favors, overtly or covertly, than the poor.”
― Mary J. Ruwart

tags: ancap, coercion, collectivism, crony-capitalism, economics, free-markets, freedom, individual-rights, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, prosperity, regulations, society, statism, voluntaryism

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#4

“No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, free-market, free-society, freedom, government, individual-rights, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, philosophy, politics, socialism, statism, voluntaryism

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#5

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism

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#6

“My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.”
― Lawrence W. Reed

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, individualism, laissez-faire, legal, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, mob-rule, non-aggression-principle, plunder, politics, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism

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#7

“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, individual-rights, individualism, laissez-faire, law, libertarian, liberty, markets, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, property, property-rights, rights, socialism, society, statism, trade, violence, voluntaryism, war

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#8

“It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, ancap, business, capitalism, free, free-markets, free-trade, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, market, non-aggression-principle, peace, peaceful, prosperity, society, trade, voluntaryism

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#9

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: coercion, communism, control, economics, freedom, government, idiocracy, libertarian, liberty, mob-rule, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism, vote, voting

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#10

“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law." It is, therefore, impossible to be a "law enforcer" and behave morally, for the same reason one can't be a moral car-jacker.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, crime, evil, free, freedom, government, laissez, law, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, peace, police, politics, socialism, society, state, statism, violence, voluntaryism, war

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#11

“I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.”
― John Taylor Gatto

tags: coercion, collectivism, educate, education, evil, free, freedom, learn, learning, libertarian, liberty, love, non-aggression-principle, peace, peaceful-parenting, prussian-education-system, schooling, society, state, statism, taxation, voluntaryism

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#12

“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inﬂicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, evil, freedom, individual-rights, individualism, law, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, spontaneous-order, statism, totalitarian, voluntaryism, war

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#13

“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”
― Auberon Herbert

tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, free-markets, freedom, government, idiocracy, individual, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mob-rule, nap, non-aggression-principle, slavery, socialism, society, statism, totalitarian, voluntaryism

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#14

“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, anarchy, freedom, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, philosophy, psychology, self-knowledge, statism, stockholm-syndrome, trauma, voluntaryism

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#15

“No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.”
― Wendy McElroy

tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, feminism, freedom, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mob-rule, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism

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#16

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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#17

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― George K. Simon Jr., In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People

tags: abuse, abusers, abusive-relationships, affection, emotional, empathic, empaths, empathy, evil, freedom, games, gaslighting, hate, hatred, learning, liberty, love, manipulation, mind, mind-control, narcissism, people, pleaser, psychology, psychopath, relationships, self-knowledge, victims, voluntaryism

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#18

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
― Larken Rose

tags: abuse, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, democracy, elections, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, religion, slavery, sophism, statism, stockholm-syndrome, superstition, taxation, violence, voluntaryism, voting

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#19

“If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, anarchy, freedom, liberty, philosophy, psychology, trauma, tribalism, voluntaryism

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#20

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism

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#21

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

tags: create, misattributed, problem-solving, thinking

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#22

“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, freedom, libertarian, liberty, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#23

“For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit, you die. Literally. For example, don't buy any food for a week, because when you buy food (or anything), it's because you value the food MORE than you value the money you trade for it. If you didn't, you wouldn't make the trade. So you PROFIT (and so does the seller) every time you buy something. And every time you sell something, or work for money, etc. So before condemning "profit" (or "greed" or "selfishness," for that matter), see if you can survive without it. Then stop repeating vague collectivist BS, and learn to distinguish between "win/win" events (voluntary exchange) where BOTH sides profit, and "win/lose" events, where one side benefits by harming the other side. By the way, "government" is ALWAYS the latter.”
― Larken Rose

tags: austrian-economics, capitalism, economics, free-market, laissez-faire

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#24

“The libertarian philosophy doesn't explain the best way to grow a vegetable garden!" Why do some people talk as if there should be one concept or principle which is all you'll ever need to know in order to handle everything in life? Right now the PRIMARY threat to humanity--by a factor of a zillion--is the belief in "authority." And the solution--the ONLY solution--is for people to escape that superstition. Questions like, "But how do we care for the poor?" are 100% logically IRRELEVANT to proving that statism is immoral and destructive. "But gee, if I stop sawing off my toes with this steak knife, how will I balance my checkbook?" Why the hell do people imagine that anarchists have some obligation to explain how every aspect of everyone's life will work, just because they say, "Having a ruling class is immoral and irrational"? When someone tells you to stop advocating evil crap (e.g., statism), they don't suddenly acquire an obligation to explain the whole universe to you, or to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to anyone ever again.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, exploitation, freedom, government, libertarian, state, statism, theft

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#25

“As long as people believe in government, wars will never end.”
― Larken Rose

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#26

“Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please?

V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: anarchy, chaos, fix

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#27

“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”
― George Sterling

tags: anarchy, conformity, philosophy

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#28

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
― Eric Schmidt

tags: anarchy, internet

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#29

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: anarchy, choice, responsibility

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#30

“Electricity is really just organized lightning”
― George Carlin

tags: anarchy, electricity, freedom, humor, lightning, perspective

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